{"podcast":{"title":"Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast","slug":"alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029","podcast_index_feed_id":485029,"rss_url":"https://alternateending.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.alternateending.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/2/7/d/127d8e250899a507/podcast-square.png","author":"Timothy Brayton","episode_count":485,"summary":"Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid. What makes Alternate Ending different from other film podcasts? Well, we're not 5 dudes in a room talking about our passion for Fight Club and Braveheart. We're two dudes, and a lady, of which our tastes are quite varied. Rob, the film-school dropout, has seen an absurd amount of movies, and if we're being honest, rounds out our Fight Club fan-base. Tim Brayton, our seasoned film critic, shares a more critical view of film, an appreciation for vintage cinema and perhaps limited-release movies that we might otherwise miss. Carrie, our casual movie-goer, reminds us all that cinema is in fact supposed to be fun and entertaining and that sometimes, just sometimes, happy endings are good. Too many film sites cater to the same kind of audience, with one overwhelming voice in the writing, but what we treasure at Alternate Ending is diversity: diversity of opinion, diversity in belief about what film should do and how it sh…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T02:18:41.960875+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029"},"episode":{"title":"Ingmar Bergman's Trilogy","slug":"ingmar-bergman-s-trilogy","published_at":"2026-08-11T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029/ingmar-bergman-s-trilogy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029","url":"https://alternateending.libsyn.com/ingmar-bergmans-trilogy","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/alternateending/August_2026-2.mp3?dest-id=333866","summary":"For our second episode of August 2026, Tim and Brian have found themselves all along in the recording studio, and with nobody else to stop them, they inevitably made a beeline for the filmography of Ingmar Bergman. Specifically, they're talking about the thee films the great director made between 1961 and 1963: Through a Glass Darkly , Winter Light , and The Silence . Alternate Ending's two resident Bergman nuts go long on the status of the three films as a contested trilogy, and their status in the director's filmography. Before the main event, Tim adds to our developing conversation from two weeks ago on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey , while Brian checks in with the record-setting box office behemoth Spider-Man: Brand New Day . Tim also catches up with the 1987 French sci-fi animation Gandahar , thanks to Patreon supporter and regular podcast guest Andrew Milne.","meta_description":"For our second episode of August 2026, Tim and Brian have found themselves all along in the recording studio, and with nobody else to stop them, they inev…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6799,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029/episodes/ingmar-bergman-s-trilogy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029/ingmar-bergman-s-trilogy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}